Made it to the range - good results pics

[O.S.O.K.]

Well, made it out to the range to test some loads and check sight ins on my xs-mounts that I added.

The 30-30 Ackley Imp was of prime interest as I did the stock bedding and decided to also recut the terminus in the crown to be sure it was uniform. Well, I got very good results. These are all at 100 yards - Marble tang sight. First, I shot this group (first three shots from the barrel):



I was very pleased - a tad over 2". Not bad.

Then, I shot this group:



Needless to say, I was really happy with that one.

I shot one more and got about the same as number one, only centered and lowered to just over the bullseye - as I adjusted the sights that way.

These were all the same load - 150 grain Speer over 40 grains of W748 clocking and average of 2575 for 9 shots.

I then loaded up some of the 170 grain Speer loads that I'd made up to see how they would print. Got this for the second group which was a little better (about 1/2") than the first load:



Not too bad for the first try - these were also W748 loads - 37 grains (2421 fps avg) and 38 grains (2466 fps avg) - which might be the way to go for hunting. Fairly potent load and shot to pretty much the same point of aim as the 150's...

The important thing to me was that the flyers and shifting point of impact was gone. The rifle was behaving the way I expect an accurate leveraction to behave. So, the buttstock bedding and crown work along with maybe the good bore scrubbing aparently worked. I'm thinking the bedding is probably the thing...

As for the other rifles, I found that the aperture insterts in the XS sights limited their downward travel - which was no problem for the 356 Win with its 220 grain loads but the 200 grain Remington loads did print about 4" high at 100 yards... The 45-70 m95 with the 300 grain loads going about 1800 fps that I'd like to hunt with printed about 10" high - at 50 yards and I couldn't lower the aperture due to the insert.

Anyway, both of the Marlins with XS sights have the inserts removed so that I can adjusted them lower if needed...


All in all, a good day at the range.

[CowboyTutt]

Very nice shooting, O.S.O.K. I just saw a guy today do a pretty good job of hitting a 2 foot gong at 300 yards with a stock levergun in 30-30 with iron sights.

-Tutt

[Borregos]

Nice shooting!!!!!

[JReed]

Very nice. I think you have a winner there what was the ES on your 150 grain load and what sort of rest were you using?

[86er]

Seems like your work was worth the effort. That kind of grouping ought to work for ya any day.

[O.S.O.K.]

Thanks.

I'm trying to get things squared away so that I can then practice from field positions with the load/s that I'd use for hunting. I'm really pleased that the 170 grain loads print to the same POA as the 150's.

JReed, the extreme spread was 54 but if I discount the very first round from a cold barrel, it drops to 43 if that means anything.

Interestingly - since you ask, I note that the ES for the first three rounds was the highest at 54 and the second three rounds (which made the tiny group) had an ES of only 12....

I'm figuring on 2" groups as a given or safe expectation for the 150 grain load - and about the same for the 170's. I think the 1" group was mostly some luck

And I was shooting off the bench - with my left hand under the handguard resting on the front of my caldwell rest and the rear was on my shoulder - both elbows on the bench. Steady enough I guess.